Housing Booms in Gateway Cities
Author: David Ley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1119853591
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Australia's Gateway Cities
Author: Andrew Reeves
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780648734000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia's 'gateway cities' occupy a significant place within the economy, even given the prominence of the capital cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. However, they have been underestimated in terms of public policy. Current debates on fiscal rebalancing need to recognise the latent economic potential of these gateway cities, while social policies should also incorporate the opportunities that the gateway cities offer in bridging the divide between metropolitan Australia and the regions. Changes in the global marketplace are behind the growth of jobs and population in urban Australia. To accommodate that growth, gateway cities have capacity for more Australians to work, live and play here. We also have a capability to expand industry, manufacturing, property development, education and health services. In this report, we address the nature and contribution of the gateway cities - also characterised internationally as 'second cities', consider the human dimension of these communities and their contribution to our national development and conclude with a review of policy settings and recommendations focused on future growth.
The World's Cities
Author: Andrew James Jacobs
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0415894859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth. The book provides students with helpful essays on each perspective, case studies to illustrate each major viewpoint, and discussion questions following each reading. The World’s Cities concludes with an original essay by the editor that helps students understand how an analysis incorporating a combination of theoretical perspectives and factors can provide a richer appreciation of the world’s city dynamics.
Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks
Author: Moritz Breul
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-04-26
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 303016957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production. Apart from facilitating the interlinking of economic activities in the surrounding regions with the global economy, gateway cities have enormous implications for how certain regions participate in the global economy. Based on a case study of the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia the book maps gateway cities, explores why these cities have come to occupy a gateway role, and evaluates their implications for regional economic development. To this aim, the book links components from research on the World City Network with Global Production Network research and demonstrates how this intersection creates synergies for studying the role of cities in economic globalization. The main audiences that this book appeals to are researchers and students interested in debates on regional development and the role of cities in the global economy. The book is also attractive to scholars interested in the organization of extractive industries.
Australia's Gateway Cities
Author: Andrew Reeves
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780648734017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch in these report appendices characterises aspects of how Australia's 'gateway cities' occupy a significant place within the economy. That is even given the prominence of the capital cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. However, the gateway cities have been underestimated in terms of public policy. Current debates on fiscal rebalancing need to recognise the latent economic potential of these gateway cities, while social policies should also incorporate the opportunities that the gateway cities offer in bridging the divide between metropolitan Australia and the regions. Changes in the global marketplace are behind the growth of jobs and population in urban Australia. To accommodate that growth, gateway cities have capacity for more Australians to work, live and play here. We also have a capability to expand industry, manufacturing, property development, education and health services. In this report, we address the nature and contribution of the gateway cities - also characterised internationally as 'second cities', consider the human dimension of these communities and their contribution to our national development and conclude with a review of policy settings and recommendations focused on future growth.
City Life
Author: Seamus O'Hanlon
Publisher: NewSouth
Published: 2018-09-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1742244262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemember when our cities and inner-cities weren’t dominated by high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes that have come with the globalisation of the Australian city since the 1970s. It tells the story of the major economic, social, cultural and demographic changes that have come with opening up of Australia in those years, with a particular focus on the two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, which have been transformed. But throughout it also looks at how these changes have played out in the smaller capitals and regional centres. How does one of the most urbanised, multicultural countries in the world see itself? This book challenges received ideas about Australia and how it presents itself to the world, and how in turn many Australians perceive and understand themselves. Rather than rehashing old stereotypes about mateship, the Bush or Anzac, this book places the globalised city and its residents at the heart of new understandings of twenty-first century Australia.
Music City Melbourne
Author: Shane Homan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1501365711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did Melbourne earn its place as one of the world's 'music cities'? Beginning with the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, this book explores the development of different sectors of Melbourne's popular music ecosystem in parallel with broader population, urban planning and media industry changes in the city. The authors draw on interviews with Melbourne musicians, venue owners and policy-makers, documenting their ambitions and experiences across different periods, with accompanying spotlights on the gendered, multicultural and indigenous contexts of playing and recording in Melbourne. Focusing on pop and rock, this is the first book to provide an extensive historical lens of popular music within an urban cultural economy that in turn investigates the contemporary nature and challenges of urban music activities and policy.
World Cities in a World-System
Author: Paul L. Knox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-07-06
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521484701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities such as New York, Tokyo and London are the centres of transnational corporate headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They are the dominant loci in the contemporary world economy, and the influence of a relatively small number of cities within world affairs has been a feature of the shift from an international to a more global economy which took place during the 1970s and 1980s. This book brings together the leading researchers in the field to write seventeen original essays which cover both the theoretical and practical issues involved. They examine the nature of world cities, and their demands as special places in need of specific urban policies; the relationship between world cities within global networks of economic flows; and the relationship between world city research and world-systems analysis and other theoretical frameworks.
Global Metropolitan
Author: John Rennie-Short
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1134405197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. The book explores the meaning of the globalizing project in cities: the maintaining, securing and increasing of urban economic competitiveness in a global world the reimagining of the city the rewriting of the city for both internal and external audiences the construction of new spaces and the hosting of new events. Specific chapters look at the significance of signature architects, the hosting of the Summer Olympics and the role of the super-rich. The main thesis of the book is that this discourse of globalizing is a major force in the restructuring of cities around the world.
Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities
Author: Phil McManus
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780868407012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how Australian cities are becoming unsustainable and suggests possibilities for future actions that move us towards sustainability. Chapters on population and demography, air quality, water quality, water availability, transport and biodiversity include many new ideas to make our cities more sustainable.
